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ID number: BIRBI-R1275 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Lucilla; Marcus Aurelius; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 164-169 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.10 Weight (g): 25.36 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 2141. A. H. Baldwin, 1942. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Lucilla, bare, with hair waved and fastened in a bun on back of head, draped, facing r. Reverse: Vesta, veiled, draped and standing facing l. by altar, holding simpulum in r. and palladium in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: LVCILLΛE ΛVC ΛNTONINI ΛVC F (Lucilla Augusta, Daughter of Antoninus Augustus). Reverse: VESTh S C (Vesta, S C; Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC III 1779.
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